Johnny Knox has been released by the Bears...*retires from NFL*

Fair question but also fair to note Harris arguably outplayed Austin the final 7 games of 2012. --Harris didn't do a thing before then as a WR.

Is Harris a worse #2 WR than Sensabaugh is a starting Free Safety?
Or Doug Free was a starting RT?

With cap issues you gotta get by somewhere usually.

I'm not sure it is fair to say Harris outplayed Austin because Harris did not regularly face the opposition's 1st to 2nd best corner. Harris still, in my opinion has much to prove, before I'd say he's a good replacement for Austin. Though, I do agree Austin has not played to his contract and I am hoping they are able to restructure to a contract more in line with his performance this last year.

Knox is slowly making progress from last December's surgery to repair fractured vertebrae. He's in the final year of his rookie contract, but a provision in the new CBA allows teams to retain the rights of their players that spend the entire year on PUP. Therefore, the Bears could bring Knox back next season for $1.26 million and give him a chance to prove his health. Tue, Nov 6,

jterrell;4999353 said:

They cut him already.

No kidding? I might not have figured that out in a thread titled:
"Johnny Knox has been released by the Bears".

The point of the post was:

"Knox is slowly making progress from last December's surgery to repair fractured vertebrae".

Knox is slowly making progress from last December's surgery to repair fractured vertebrae. He's in the final year of his rookie contract, but a provision in the new CBA allows teams to retain the rights of their players that spend the entire year on PUP. Therefore, the Bears could bring Knox back next season for $1.26 million and give him a chance to prove his health. Tue, Nov 6,

This is why Knox will never play again.

He was released by Chicago. Who knows they could keep a good WR for only $1.26 million, who needs WRs with Devin Hester likely gone.

And he was released due to a serious vertebrae injury. Chicago knows his medical status.

Knox is never playing again. I follow Chicago sports and listen to Chicago sports talk every day. It's nearly unanimous that his career is over. I wish him luck, but there's no chance this season of him suiting up.

Multiple sources tell the Chicago Tribune that free agent Johnny Knox is "unlikely to play again." Officially, Knox sustained a thoracic-lumbar junction fracture-dislocation with neurological involvement back in Week 15 of the 2011 season. "He had to work himself back up to where he could even walk. He had to work to get himself up out of bed," former position coach Darryl Drake said. The nerve damage and instability in Knox's back have capped his athletic ability and speed. At 6'0/185, those are two attributes he couldn't afford to lose.

Knox told Sean Jensen of the Chicago Sun-Times that he has to face the reality that he still has trouble walking — and isn’t even close to being able to run with the speed of an NFL wide receiver — more than 13 months after suffering a devastating back injury. As a result, Knox said, he is trying to make peace with the fact that he will never play football again.

I really hope that he lands a coaching job somewhere and goes on to have a great career. Terrible ending to a career that showed promise. He wasn't ever going to be a top WR, but his speed would have kept him in the league for a long time, that injury was harder to watch than the McGahee/Lattimore injuries.

The only other injury I remember watching and feeling as squeamish about was when an Alabama WR named Provo(something like that) caught a TD pass and broke his leg as he landed and the leg just flopped all around.